literati

This makes for puckish satire of the literati and its highly cultured brand of condescension; at times the movie feels like a South American spin on a Noah Baumbach film.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

What was supporting the grand mansions and the literati in England in the middle of the 19th century?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

In the world of literature, for example, authors who are “othered” outside of the elite literati typically are boxed into othering themselves just to parlay their creativity into a career.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2023

Unlike, for example, the 1983 list, which now looks like a defining picture of the London literati, the judges believe the 2023 list is more representative of British society as a whole.

From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2023

Cespedes was a great literati, a great painter, and poet, and a very clever modeller in wax: he composed a poem, in stanzas of eight verses, on Repentance.

From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Llorente, Juan Antonio

Latest literatus to attempt this particular impossibility is Author Golding who plants his small potatoes in neat rows on either side Magnolia Street.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is still living in Indianapolis, on a street with the glorious name of Meridian, and never was Princeton more conscious of him as her leading literatus.

From Time Magazine Archive

For all his poverty, his neuroses, he saw life more wholly than perhaps any other literatus of his time.

From Time Magazine Archive

For Mae, who fancies herself no end as a literatus and has always jealously insisted on authoring her own scripts, this time took a tip from Producer Cowan.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under the literatus, grammar, composition, music, geometry, astronomy, and literature are to be studied.

From History of Education by Seeley, Levi